Non-refillable bottle.



. Patented Oct. l, |901. A. HELLER & W. M. IVES.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

(Application iled` Max. 28, 1901.) (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES ADAM IIELLER AND TILLIAM M.

PATENT OFFICE.

IVES, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,754, dated October 1, 1901.

Application filed March 28,1901. Serial No. 53,208. (No model.)

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Be it known that We, ADAM HELLER and VILLIAM' M. IVES, citizens of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to non-retillable bottles, and particularly to a device for retaining and securing a bottle-valve in the neck of a bottle.

The prime object of the invention is to provide a novel and peculiar anchor device for holding a valve in a bottle-neck.

A further object of the invention is to provide a bott-le having a peculiar neck adapted to accommodate and cooperate with the anchor device, special means for connecting said device to a valve to hold the latter in the bottle-neck, and certain improvements in means for controlling the movement of the valve-gate.

The invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts and resides, essentially, in the anchor device, the valve and shell or cone herein shown being covered by a prior application iiled September 7, 1900, Serial No. 29,331.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the upper portion of a bottle, the neck thereof embodying our invention and showing the anchor in the act of carrying the valve into the neck. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the valve anchored. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail section of the valve-ring and anchor. Fig. 4 is an enlarged elevation of the anchor with arms detached. Fig. 5 is a modification showing in section the valve ring and gate with a spring controlling the gate. Fig. 6 is a sectional view of a modication showing a cone suspended by the hood. Fig. 7 is a sectional view of a modified form of hood. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a ring which may be used in place of the cone.

The samenumeral references denote the saine parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

The bottle-valve comprises the ring 1, having ears 2, from which the top surface of the ring slants or is inclined; a gate 3, having a lug 4, pivotcd or hinged to the ears 2, and a weight 5, confined by a cone 6 and hood 7 to play upon the said gate and keep it closed, except when the bottle is tilted, in which case the weight will fall against the cone and permit the gate to swing. The valve is carried by or contained in a hood 7, fitting the upper portion of the bottle-neck closely and having perforations S in or under its top for the discharge of the fluid from the bottle. The shell or cone G may be formed in or carried by t-he hood, as shown in Fig. 6, or, as shown in Fig. 7, the hood 7L has interior vanes 7", which answer the same purpose as a cone, the latter not being used with this hood. Vhether the cone be attached to the valve-ring or the hood there must be an interval or space between the bottom end of the cone and the valve-ring for the play ot' the weight and valve-gate.

The anchor device consists of a stem comprising two telescoping screw-threaded portions 9 and 10, the top of the portion 9 having projections 11 fitting the ring 1, and a bar or pin 12 extending through the hood 7, valvering 1, and the top of the anchor part 9, whereby these parts are secured together. The bottom end of the part 9 has notches'or teeth 13, which are engaged,when it is attempted to unscrew the parts 9 and 10, bya spring-controlled dog 14: in the part 10, the said dog keeping the parts locked together against unscrewing. The part 10 is shown solid and when so employed has external vertical grooves 15, forming passages between the parts 9 and 10. Arms 16 are pivoted in the lower end of the part 10 and are held extended by a spring 17. It is obvious that the position of the dog is immaterial as long as it effects the lock between the parts 9 and 10 of the anchor.

We may make the part 10 hollow or tubular, in which case the vertical rgrooves are dispensed with.

In order to effect the anchorage ofthe valve, we provide a bottle-neck having an angular or square shoulder 1S and a second ball or shoulder 19, said shoulders being connected by the reduced or smaller neck portion 20, the shoulder 18 forming a seat for the valve and the shoulder 19 a stop or catch for the arms 16.

Referring to the modification shown in Fig. 5, the valve-ring is provided with a spring 21,

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of slight tension, to control the movement of the gate, the structure of the gate and ring being the same as hereinbefore described.

Referring to Fig. 8, the conical ring 22 is secured in a hood so as to leave a passage between the hood and the ring, and the latter is provided with ears 23 for suspending it and projections 24, which engage the Walls of the hood. This ring is employed in lieu of the cone. The parts being assembled and kept together by the bar or pin 12, the valve is anchored upon its seat 18. By pushing the arms 16 against the said seat or shoulder 18 the arms are forced through the reduced neck by a continued push 01 pressure on the hood 7, whereupon they expand and hook or catch against the shoulder 19. The hood, with its connected parts, is then turned, which screws parts 9 and 10 together until the valve-ring is held down upon its seat 18, the dog holding the parts 9 and 10 together against un-v screwing. y

We do not wish to be understood as limiting ourselves to any particular size, or material in the construction of the parts, to any one location of the dog, nor to any special means of connecting the anchor with the valve-ring; but,

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An anchor device for non-refillable bottle-valves, comprising the telescoping screwthreaded portions, arms pivoted to one of said portions, and the other portion being attached to the said valve.

2. An anchor device for non-refillable bottle-valves, comprising the telescoping screw portions, arms pivoted to one of said portions, the other portion being secured to the said valve, and a dog to lock said port-ions against unscrewing;

3. The combination, with a non-rellable bottle-valve, of the anchor-stem attached to thevalve, and the spring-controlled arms pivoted to the stem to swing vertically, the free ends of the arms pointing upwardly when closed to compress the spring, and opening downwardly under a shoulder in the neck of the bottle.

4. The combination of the valve having a hinged or pivoted gate, the anchor depending from the valve and adjustable in the neck, a perforated hood attached to the valve, a weight in the hood to play on the valve-gate, and means in the hood to control the movement of the Weight.

5. The combination, with a valve, and a weight to play over the valve, of a hood containing the weight and closed against the valve-ring and having fluid-passages through lits upper portion, and a weight-controlling cone depending from the hood'with a playspace for the weight vertically between the cone and the weight.

6. A non-rellable bottle having two shoulders in its neck, a weight-controlled valve attached to one of the shoulders, an anchor device for effecting said attachment and comprising a two-part stem, one part being secured to the valve and the other part having spring-controlled arms pivoted thereto which open downwardly under the other shoulder.

7. The combination, with a valve-ring, and gate pivoted to the ring, of a hood having fluid-passages through it and provided with a top depression extending into the hood, and a Weight free to play between the depression and the gate to close the latter and only engaging the depression when the gate is open.

In witness whereof we hereunto set our hands in the presence of two witnesses.

ADAM HELLER. WILLIAM M. IVES. lVitnesses:

CHARLES H. MILLIKIN, HOWARD C. BROWN. 

